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Users with internet access should be able to import RSS feeds (via Tor) and re-publish them as Briar blogs.

First iteration:

• UI for importing a feed -- no preview, show an error if the feed can't be fetched and parsed (#483 (closed))
• Fetch the feed periodically in the background -- not via Tor (#484 (closed))
• Extract new entries from the feed -- not fetching the full text (#485 (closed))
• Convert any new entries to Briar blog posts -- just strip HTML tags (#486 (closed))
• Post converted entries to the user's personal blog (part of #486 (closed))
• Simple UI for Managing RSS Feeds (#483 (closed) & #517 (closed))

RSS/Atom Java libraries

ROME

• actively maintained and looks to be the most popular on the net
• Does not support Android fully, support will come with 2.0.0 1.6.1 version
• quite big with lots of stuff we don't need such as feed generation, but looks like these are in separate jars
• Has a ROME Fetcher to fetch the feeds, but is deprecated in favor of dedicated HTTP libraries such as Apache HttpClient. We can use a library as okhttp as well and just pass the InputStream to the feed parser.
• On Maven Central and jcenter
• License: Apache License 2.0
• Dependencies:
  • rome-utils
  • jdom2
  • slf4j-api

PkRSS

• Android library can not be in briar-core
• lightweight
• License: Apache License 2.0

Jakarta FeedParser

• Part of apache commons, has dormant in the URL
• License: Apache License 2.0
• Dependencies:
  • jaxen-full
  • jdom
  • log4j
  • xercesImpl
  • xml-apis
  • commons-httpclient (starting from version 3)

informa

• Last release 2007